NANNING -- China's top political advisor, Yu Zhengsheng, on Saturday called for deepening mainland-Taiwan economic cooperation in order to further improve cross-Strait ties and reinvigorate the Chinese nation.

Zhang Zhijun, director of the Taiwan Work Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, addresses the closing ceremony of the ninth Cross-Strait Economic, Trade and Culture Forum in Nanning, capital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Oct. 27, 2013.